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About the band

A vocal harmony oriented jam band

Formed in the year 2000

Originally formed to perform multi-instrumentalist Jeff Engholm's solo album, Summit Climb in the year 2000, Collective Unconscious has grown from those humble roots to become one of Minnesota's premiere groups. Singer/songwriters Nathan "Nature" Nesje, and Muggsy Lauer make up the core of the group with their slick, well blended vocal harmonies. They are joined by composer/keyboardist George Maurer, and percussionist Andy Deckard.

Through the years, the band has performed not only their own music, but expanded into a new genre: album shows. Starting in 2005 with performing The Beatles "Abbey Road" from first track to last (Come Together to Her Majesty), with special guest and semi-band member, Stacy Bauer, they jumped into one of their most ambitious projects, The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds".

That album took an ensemble of over 15 musicians playing an astounding array of instruments from Theramin to timpani, and included The Vees and The Half Steps. Other album projects have included Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young "Deja Vu", and The Band "The Last Waltz".

If that wasn't enough, the group teamed up with The Fabulous Armadillos in 2010 to create a veritable "super group" and have been performing "Takin' It To The Limit: A Tribute To Eagles", and "Takin' It To The Streets: A Tribute To The Doobie Brothers" ever since.

And if even that wasn't enough, members of Collective Unconscious have taken part in groups paying tribute to Zed Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Guess Who, The Traveling Wilburys, George Harrison, The Blues Brothers, and John Lennon, as well as performing in plays, pit bands, jazz ensembles, jug bands, and this thing we do each February.

The Band is one of North America's musical treasures. On Thanksgiving Day in 1976, The Band was joined onstage by a stellar lineup that included Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Neil Diamond, Bobby Charles, The Staple Singers, and Eric Clapton, and the result, known as The Last Waltz, is widely renown as one of the best rock concerts ever. Our special guests are not quite as world famous, but they are no less talented!

Join us for this labor of love, and an evening of great music including songs like The Weight, Forever Young, Stagefright, Helpless, Coyote, Caravan, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and many, many more!